Is Star.me for you?

Star.me is a new site currently in closed beta. The idea is that you share and receive 'stars' from your friends. These are meant to bring about a nostalgia for the 'gold star' rewards given to children.

At SXSW Ze Frank (creator of Star.me) spoke about messiness and fun being missing from current crop of social networks. Whilst it is easy to miss the DIY craziness of MySpace, Star.me might be too late. Although beautifully crafted in HTML5, it feels like it should have been a cute add-on to an existing social network, rather than standing alone.

Jason England

I am the Founder and Editor-in-chief of New Rising Media. You can follow me on Twitter @MrJasonEngland.

Facebook Suggests Friends You Don't Talk To For Acquaintance List

After introducing the 'close friends' and 'acquaintances' listing options last fall to a rather lukewarm reception, it was clear that the functionality was not something people wanted to waste their time with. Well Facebook thinks it has the answer, with the 'Acquaintance List' suggestion box.

Facebook is better than sex.

We love it when social sciences do their best to make wild conclusions. A 'scientific' study by sociological journal Cosmopolitan says 20 per cent of women prefer Facebook over sex.

We've unanimously agreed that maybe this number sounds a tad low. Sex has always been about communication between two (or more, depending on how lucky you are) people to push the biological sensibilities to orgasm. The best times are never just the messing-around bit, it's the self affirmation, the aftermath and the conquest. If you were arguing before, that doesn't matter for anything anymore.

Google denies reports that Google+ is dying

Reports of Google+'s death were greatly exaggerated according to Google, claiming to the BBC they they're just getting started

This comes in response to a Forbes article "A Eulogy for Google Plus", a piece in Slate: "Google+ is dead," and the general opinion circulating that seems to be we got a Google+ account; but don't really use it anymore.

What happens online when you die?

It's the question that nobody really thinks of as in the face of death (quite understandably) your online profiles fall to the wayside. But what does happen to the digital persona you spent time constructing after you die?

The obvious questions arise at first. Whether you'd rather want your profile to continue online existence forevermore or to elect a "digital executor" to take the lead in removing your online footprint?